tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
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In March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. Those who stayed at the plant to stabilize the reactors, willing to sacrifice their lives, became known internationally as the Fukushima 50.In tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh takes a piercing, witty, and ferocious look into the heart of the disaster. Here we meet its survivors and victims, from a pearl-catcher to a mild-mannered father to a drove of mindless pink robots. And then there is Roripaugh's unforgettable Tsunami: a force of nature, femme fatale, and "annihilatrix." Tsunami is part hero and part supervillain—angry, loud, forcefully defending her rights as a living being in contemporary industrialized society. As humanity rebuilds in disaster's wake, Tsunami continues to wreak her own havoc, battling humans' self-appointed role as colonizer of Earth and its life-forms. "She's an unsubtle thief / a giver of gifts, " Roripaugh writes of Tsunami, who spits garbage from the Pacific back into now-pulverized Fukushima. As Tsunami makes visible her suffering, the wrath of nature scorned, humanity has the opportunity to reconsider the trauma they cause Earth and each other. But will they look?

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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN
9781571319494
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Ontology of Tsunami
  7. Dreaming Tsunami
  8. Tsunami Goes to Canada
  9. Animal Portents Foretell the Rise of Tsunami
  10. Radioactive Man
  11. Hungry Tsunami / Tsunami as Galactus
  12. Mothra Flies Again
  13. Shapeshifter Tsunami: A Scary Epithalamium
  14. Miki Endo as Flint Marko (a.k.a. Sandman)
  15. Tsunami Battles the Pink Robots / French Poststructuralist Tsunami
  16. Year of the Hitachi Snake
  17. Beautiful Tsunami
  18. Hulk Smash
  19. Tsunami as Misguided Kwannon
  20. White Tsubame
  21. Tsunami Grrlsplains Allergies
  22. Anonymous, as Invisible Man
  23. Tsunami’s Debris
  24. Ama, the Woman of the Sea
  25. Kikuchi Octopus
  26. Emo Tsunami
  27. Song of the Mutant Super Boars
  28. Hisako’s Testimony (as X-Men’s Armor)
  29. Origin of Tsunami
  30. Ghosts of the Tohoku Coast
  31. Tsunami in Love: Kintsukuroi / Golden Joinery
  32. Origami of Tsunami: A Technical Manual and Glossary
  33. Acknowledgments